Halbe van der Velde
Astrology
A course for freshmen and advanced students
420 pages
The greater part of Astrology, a course for freshmen and advanced students is dedicated to the explanation and interpretation of horoscopes.
The writer, a full fledged psychologist, takes the stand that there are no good or bad, easy or awkward horoscopes, because everything depends on the uses one makes of the basic possibilities the horoscope points to. He approaches each and every interpretation and even the tiniest detail of the horoscope in this same vein.
Like Liz Greene and Karen Hamaker Zondag, the author refuses to simply accept the natal horoscope fatalisticly; he sees it as a guide which offers the possibility to go your way through life in a direction which suits your talents. This book is divided in 12 lessons and of course it concentrates firstly on the basic astrological building blocks: signs, houses and planets.
Van der Velde also sheds his light on a number of horoscope factors which are often overlooked, like the questions of over and underoccupation of the elements, unaspected planets, planetary patterns, empty and 'lost' houses, retrograde movements etc. In the process he points the student to ways to order, select, assimilate and interpret the huge quantity of information a horoscope has to offer us. To improve the practical use of this book some lessons are followed by a question and answer section. Although Astrology, a course for freshmen and advanced students by Halbe van der Velde is first of all directed to the layman with an awakening interest for astrology, it is, given the thouroughness with which the subject matter is treated, without any doubt also a useful book for the more advanced astrology student. In recent years this course in astrology has been welcomed in Dutch astrological circles with great enthusiasm.
The only actual and complete astrological course in one volume.